AIM for Mac 1.5 (Beta 1) Released!
Posted Mar 16th 2009 6:30PM by Lee Givens
Filed under: Beta News, AIM for Mac
Everyday, I spend a good chunk of my morning or late afternoon reviewing comments and sending e-mails directly to our users. I have enlisted the entire team to participate and we are well aware of the issues and feature requests our users want.
Today, I am pleased to announce our next version of AIM for Mac - version 1.5 (Beta 1). As you can see from the screenshot below, you can customize your Buddy Group Row headers (I selected my favorite color combination - Go Terps!) by clicking the colorwheel.
You can now turn on AIM Conversation Logging (under AIM>Preferences...) and AIM for Mac 1.5 will save your IM conversations to your specified AIM Log location. You can view your IM logs using your default browser and you can use Mac OS X Spotlight for easy searching.
AIM for Mac 1.5 (Beta 1) features enhanced AIM-to-SMS, allowing you to store a Mobile number with each Buddy for easy texting. Feeling like purple today? You can now change the Buddy List Group Row colors to suit your mood.
Lee Givens
AOL Mac Product Lead
AIM for Mac 1.5 (Beta 1) Additional Features
- To improve feedback for AIM connection issues, a new link has been added to the bottom of the Sign In window to allow users to report issues to the AOL Mac Team.
- Added Quick Away Message and Quick Status Message menu items to the AIM Edit menu.
- In response to user feedback, added a Group row context menu item to "Collapse All Groups".
- Added the full folder path to the tooltip of the IM Preferences Download Folder and Logging Folder pop-up buttons.
AIM for Mac 1.5 (Beta 1) Fixed Issues
- Fixed deletion of away messages.
- Fixed Autocomplete in IM's broken if it's an AIM Blast with a ( : ) in the name.
- Buddy List: If group name is very long tooltip should appear for the group along with the count.
- Tooltip missing for status message displayed on Buddy List.
- Fixed issue for Mac setups with two monitors using spanning (not mirroring), Buddy List does not remember to reposition on second monitor, always goes back to Monitor 1.
- NickName/Friendly Name if turned on should appear as "Nickname" on IM tabs.
- Fixed contextual menu in the IM compose field to allow users to "Search in AOL".
- Improvements to AIM authentication.
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Welcome to the Mac@AOL Blog. My name is Lee Givens and I'm the Product Lead for the Mac and iPhone products at AOL. You can find the latest information on AOL's software development on the Mac and any cool happenings at AOL. The purpose of the blog is to create a feedback loop so we can hear from our loyal AOL Mac users. Managing a blog is a lot of work, so I enlisted support from the whole team...the Mac team is made up of dedicated Macintosh developers, QA engineers and Product folks.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. Great to see development is moving quickly and features are coming along.
Can you add the following feature requests to the list to be considered?
Sign on Invisible
Change Buddy Icon
Auto-size buddy list window
Current itunes song as status
Audio/Video Chat
Custom Sounds
It'd would also be nice to see some kind of Address Book like in AIM 6 that pulls the info from AOL address book servers..
Posted at 1:38AM on Mar 17th 2009 by Brad
2. It's great to read about all these developments but I have given up on using the AOl software on my MAC. I have downloaded the newest versions and they work for a day or two. Then I am back to signing on and waiting for hours - literally!!! - for my mailbox to load. I only have about 35 emails in the mailbox but it never finishes loading. I now have to sign on through the Internet to read my AOL. I've had AOL since 1995 and am reluctant to give it up but I am so frustrated....help!By the way, it works just fine on a PC, just not a MAC.
Posted at 11:47AM on Mar 17th 2009 by Jules
3. Am I correct in thinking that I cannot see SuperBuddy animations nor hear SuperBuddy sounds when using AIM for Mac?
I like the new AIM logging feature for Mac. It performs better than PC windows. Thank you!
Posted at 10:22PM on Mar 22nd 2009 by gmtibble
4. Version 1.5 (b1) is working well. A weird issue I had in the previous version with making and saving new away messages seems to have been resolved, and IM logging is great! The one thing that I feel AIM is conspicuously lacking is custom buddy icons. Can we expect that feature sometimes soon? Thanks guys!
Posted at 12:58PM on Mar 24th 2009 by Dave
5. Any idea when we can expect Audio and Video chat?
I know iChat is AIM compatible, and supports AIM video and audio chat. Wouldn't it be great if the AIM client did as well?
Posted at 5:02AM on Mar 28th 2009 by josh